The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-11-09
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Which no doubc he calls his HON!

sit under the sycamores and by the side OF
the brooks, and think and dream and pray
about the poverty of Him who came our
souls to save. But you and l will probably
be denied that, and so here, in another CONT
nent and in another hemisphere, and in scenes
as different SIS possible, we recount as well
as we may how poor our heavenly Prince be-
came. And in the other holy land above we
may all study the riches that He left behind
when He started for His earthly expedition.
Come, let US bargain to meet each other at
the door of the Fathers mansion, or o. the
bank Of the river just where it rolls from
under the throne, or at the outside gate
Jesus got the contrast by exchanging that
world for this: we will get it by exchanging
tkis world for that. There and then you will
understand more of the wonders Of the grace
of our Lord Jesus Christ who, though he
was rich, Jet for your sakes became poor"
Yes grace, free grace, sovereign grace,
omnipotent grace. Among the thousands OF
words of the language there is no more queen
ly word. 1t means free and unmerlted KIND
ness. Ny text has no monopoly of the word.
One hundred and twenty-nine times does the
Bible eulogiZe grace. 1t is a door swung wide
open to let into the pardon OF God all the
millions who choose to enter it.
John Newton sang Of it when he wrote:
Amazing grace, how sweet the sound
That eered wretch like mo!
Philip Doddr;dge put it into hynnology
when he wrote:
Grace, tits o charming sound,
Harmonious TO the ear;
Heaven with the echo shall resound
And all the world shall hear.
One of John Bunyan's great books is en-
TITLED Astounding Grace" 1T is all of grace
that I am saved" has been on the lips Of hum
dreds Of dying Christians. The boy Sammy
was right when, being examined for adm!s-
sion into church membership, he was asked:
Whose work was your salvationH' and he
answered: Part mine and part Gods" Then
the examiner asked: What part did you do.
Sammy and the answer was: Il opposed
God all could, and he did the rest!m Oh.
the height of it, the depth Of it, the length Of
it. the breadth of 1.-THE grace of God! Mr..
Fletcher having written pamphlet that
pleased the King, the King offered to eompen-
safe him. and Fletcher answered: There is
only one thing l want, and that is more
grace" Yes, my blood bought hearers, grace
to live by, grace to die by. Grace that
saved the publican, that saved Lydia, that
saved the dying thief. that saved the jailer,
that saved me- But the riches of that grace
will not be fully understood until heaven
breaks in upon the soul An old Scotch
man, who Fad been a soldier in one of the
of our American hospitals. His one desire
was to see Scotland and his old home,
and once again walk the heather of
the Highlands. and hear the bagpipes
of the Scotch regiments The night that the
old Scotch soldier died young man, some
what reckless but kind-hearte1, got a COM
pany of musicians to come and play under
the Old soldiers window, and among the in.
struments there was bagpipe. The instant
that the musicians began the dying old man
in delirium said: Whats that! what's that:
w 1r = IN ratr
the tune; yes, that's the tune. Thank God,
have got home once nore:' 'Bonry Scotland
and Bonny Doom" were the last words he ut
tered as he passed up to the highlands of the
better country. And there are here to-day
hundreds homeSick for heaven; some because
you have so many bereavementS, some be-
cause YOU have so many temptations, some
because you have so many ailments: home
sick, very homeSlck, for the fatherland OF
heaven. and the music that you want to hear
now is the song OF free grace, and the music
yon want to hear when you die is free grace,
and forever before the throne of God You
will sing Of the grace of or Lord Jesus
Christ. who though he was rich, for your
SaSeS became poor"
Yes. yes; for your sakes. 1t was not on a
pleasure excursion that he came, for it was
all pain. 1t was not on astronomical explor
alton, for he knew this world as well before
he aighted as aftecward II was not because
he was compelled TO come. for he volunteered.
1t was not because it was easy for he knew
that it would be thorn and spike, and hun
ger, and thirst, and Tociferation Of angry
mobs. For Your sakes, Wipe away your
tears To fo-gicc Your wro1g-doing. 20 COM
panionship your loneliness, to soothe your
sorrows, to sit with you by the new-made
grave, to bind up your wounds IN the ugly
battle with the world and bring you home at
last, kindling up the mists that fall on your
dying vision with the sunlight of q glorious
morn For your Sakes. No, | will change
that. Paul will not care, and Christ will not
care if l change it, for | must get into the
blcSSedneSS OF the text myself, and so say:
For our sakeS :" For we all have our temp
tatious, and bereavements and conflicts
For our sakeS We.who deservefor our sins
to be expatriated into a word as much poorer
than this earth as this earth is poorer than
heaven. For our SakeS
But what fruitful coming down to take
us glorionsly up. When ArtaxerxeS was
hunting, Tirebazus, who was attending him,
showed the King a rent in his garment. The
King said: ''How shall mend it!' BY Civ
ing it to me, said TirehaZus. Then the King
gave him the robe but commanded him never
to wear it, as it would be inappropriate: See
the startling and comforting fact, while our
Prince throws off the habit he not only al |
lows US to wear it, but commands us to wear
it. and it will become US well, and for the pov
critics of our spiritual state we may put on I
the splendors of heavenly regalement. For ;
our Sakes. Oh, the personality of this re-
hgion, Not an abstraction, not an
arch under which we walk to behold elabo-
rate masonry, not an ice caste like that !
which Empress Elizabeth, of Russia over
100 years ago ordered constructed, winter
with its trowel of crystal cementing the huge
blocks that had been quarried from the
frozen rivers Of the north, but fathers
house with a wide hearth cracking hearty